GRE Word List
JUXTAPOSE
to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect)
The meaning of the word juxtapose is to place (different things) side by side (as to compare them or contrast them or to create an interesting effect).
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| vile | morally despicable or abhorrent |
| scale | an instrument or machine for weighing |
| seine | a large net with sinkers on one edge and floats on the other that hangs vertically in the water and is used to enclose and catch fish when its ends are pulled together or are drawn ashore |
| culmination | the action of culminating |
| molecule | the smallest particle of a substance that retains all the properties (see property |
| podiatrist | the medical care and treatment of the human foot |
| vitreous | resembling glass (as in color, composition, brittleness, or luster) : glassy |
| billowing | wave |
| perpetuate | to make perpetual or cause to last indefinitely |
| canto | one of the major divisions of a long poem |